The eight-day studio theatre festival organised by Northern University Bangladesh based troupe named Northern Theatre ended on Friday. Traditional lathials from Nababganj, Dhaka displayed their tricks with sticks as a major attraction of the concluding day programme at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Sarbanam presented a number of folk
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Class struggle highlighted in theatre
STUDIO THEATRE FESTIVAL Class struggle highlighted in theatre The audience was immensely pleased with the simplicity and liveliness of the popular play Kinu Kahar Thetar staged by the artistes of Pracchyanaut on Tuesday. The play has been authored by noted theatre personality of West Bengal Manoj Mitra, The play was staged on the fifth day ... Read more
Students stage anti-colonial plays
Six plays, most featuring movement against the British colonial rule, were staged on the fourth day of the ongoing eight-day theatre festival at three venues of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Sunday. Organised by the academy, the festival titled Swapna O Drohoer Jatiyo Natyautsab features 64 theatre plays from the Shilpakala-based and college-based theatre troupes from ... Read more
Plays depicting history staged on third day
Eight plays, most of which are periodic drama, were staged on the third day of the ongoing eight-day theatre festival at three venues of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday. Organised by the academy, the festival titled Swapna O Drohoer Jatiyo Natyautsab features 64 theatre plays from the Shilpakala-based and college-based theatre troupes from 64 districts.
Syed Shamsul Haque theatre fest begins
Payer Awaj Pawa Jay staged The National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy was decorated with dazzling lights and colourful papers to celebrate a special moment: the inauguration of the eight-day Syed Shamsul Haque theatre festival. Not only the members of the participating troupes, everyone who passed by the area was drawn to the programme ... Read more
Sanglap holds 2-day theatre festival
The two-day theatre festival organised by Sanglap Group Theatre ended on Thursday through staging of Badnam at the National Theatre Hall. The play, adapted and directed by Mustafa Hira from Tagore’s short story having the same title, features how an ordinary housewife of a police officer emerges as a great patriot and scarifies all the ... Read more
Padatik Natya Sangsad’s theatre fest ends
2 plays staged on last day The four-day theatre festival organised by Padatik Natya Sangsad (TSC) ended in an ordinary manner on Monday at the Shilpakala Academy. There was no formal closing ceremony as done in any other festivals. Just two scheduled plays were staged at the two venues. ‘Due to hartal we had to ... Read more
Panchanari Akhyan, Court Martial staged
The third day of the ongoing Syed Badruddin Hossain Theatre Festival, organised by Padatik Natya Sangsad (TSC), featured a monodrama on oppression on women and a theatre production based on the war of independence. Dhaka Theatre staged monodrama Panchanari Akhyan at the National Theatre Hall and Theatre Art Unit staged
Kokilara, Target Platoon staged
Musical Target Platoon and monodrama Kokilara were staged on the second of the four-day Theatre festival organised by Padatin Natya Sangsad (TSC) marking the birth anniversary of its late president Syed Badruddin Hossain. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Reparatory staged Target Platoon, written and directed by theatre personality Mamunur Rashid, at the National Theatre Hall. Another troupe ... Read more
Chitrangada staged
Theatre fest organised by Swapnodal Chitrangada staged On Sunday, the 5th day of theatre festival organised by Swapnodal, Tagore’s lyrical drama version of Chitrangada was staged at the experimental theater hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. It was the 17th show of the Swapnodal’s current production, directed by Zahid Repon. Tagore wrote the lyrical drama in 1892, ... Read more
Six-day theatre fest begins tomorrow
Theatre troupe Swapnodal will pay tribute to Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, dramatist Selim Al Deen and Indian director Badal Sircar by organising a six-day theatre festival beginning tomorrow, informed the organisers at a press conference held on Monday at the seminar room of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The festival will mark
Season-based theatre fest begins in Ctg
A six-day theatre festival titled Magh Nishither Natok began yesterday at Theatre Institute in Chittagong. Arranged by Ritubhittik Natyamela Parishad, the theatre festival will be featuring a reunion of theatre activists, exhibition, open discussion, staging of plays, conferring of Sukhendu Smriti Natyapadak and more. This year’s Sukhendu Smriti Natyapadak
Dhaka University Theatre Festival
“Ashchorjo Shundor Ei Bechey Thaka” and “Durghotona” staged The ongoing fortnight-long theatre festival by the Department of Theatre, Dhaka University featured two plays on March 9. The plays — “Ashchorjo Shundor Ei Bechey Thaka” and “Durghotona” — were staged at Natmandal Auditorium of DU. Tanvir Rashid directed “Ashchorjo Shundor Ei Bechey Thaka”. The play is ... Read more